Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-18
frame, but the flow Of milk must BID,
kept up. and she should be MIXED all
most up to her next calying.-Colone1
Weld in American Dairyman.
THE WooDPEcKER As AN Ally.

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Weld in American Dairyman.
THE WOoDPEcKER AS AN ALLY.
The Woodpecker is one of the few birds
that remain with us duriug the winter,
|thoughi it is hidden in dense forests, so
that those who do not get far from the
house rarely see it. AS it lives during
this time on insect %burrowing in trees
it is a valuable friend of man.
It attacks his insect enemies while they
are dormant and unable to escape.
This may not seem exactly fair, but the
scourge of insects during the season
when they are active more than recon-
Giles the farmer to any advantage that
may be taken against them. In the fight
against insects every means of warfare
is fair.
HINTS AND HELPS.
The quilts of geese and turkeys are
now manufactured into a substitute for
whalebone. . .
Colonel Weld says the best way to-
tether a cow is by the hind leg (never
by the horns) and a horse by the fore
leg.
White spots on tables, bureaus, and,
other vanished furniture may be re-
moved by rubbing with a rag wet With
spirits OF camphor.
A writer in the Country Gentle
man declares that not one-fourth of the
COWS in the state of New York pay for
the feed they consume.
Cows that kick or draw milk from
their udders should be sent to the
butcher. Remedies to prevent such
vices are not only useless as permanent
cures, but also troublesome to apply.
For polishing windows or mirrors
take clean rainwater and put in a few
drops of ammonia, enough to make
the water feel slippery: if very dirty
rinse; wipe dry with paper the ammonia
gives a clearness and brilliancy to the
glass that can be obtained in no other
way.
Whenever sheep are afflicted with
tick, OF other animals with vermin, it
indicates a low condition of the system,
caused either by the vermin in the first
place, o. by improper feeding. The
better the condition of the animals the
less liability to attack. They will not
improve until relieved, and the longer
this be delayed the more difficult it will
become.
For early crops choose your warmest
n nd hocf IroirpI 1o~l T. am IN -1~Ia1
sooner. Use well rotted manure, be-
cause that gives the plant food quickest
in an available form, or soluble fertil-
izers. Every day you gain is money.
Early potatoes, for example, may sell,
for 81 per bushel On the 18th of June,
and for fifty cents a bushel on the 1st'
of July.
10 provide a cheap carpet make a
cover for the floor of the cheapest CLOTH
you can get, and tack down as you;
would a carpet, then paper it as you'll
would a wall, selecting paper which
has a figure resembling that of a car-
pet. Whendry varnish with two coats.
varnish. With reasonable usage such.
carpet, which greatly resembles oil cloth,
will last for two years. i
The reason poultry killed at home,
though young, is as tender as that
bought at the market, isthat the former
is generally not killed until wanted, and
when eaten is still rigid with death,
while that bought at the poulterer's
has been killed at least hours-more
often days. Poultry ought to be killed
several days before being eaten, dressed
at once, and with a few bits Of char
coal in it, hung in a cool place:
The deeper the preparation Of the
soil the deeper will the roots penetrate,
thus advancing closer to moisture, as
well as permitting of the growth of a
large proportion of those rootlets that
collect food. If the soil be shallow and the
subsoil hard the roots will spread near
er the surface, thus rendering them not,
only more liable to being winter killed
but also to- damage from drought.
The supposition that young sonvs arc
better for breeding purposes than those
two or three years old has done much
to impair the vigor of swine. The Gus
tom of using young sows grew out OF
the loss of young pigs by pressure from
the heavy dams, but a large breeding
SOW should not be fat and heavy. A.
SOW over two years old will give more;
milk than a younger one, and, as a
rule, she will produce stronger pigs.
To clean looking glasses take anews-
paper fold it up six or eight inches
square, dip it in cold water and rub the
glass thoroughly; hyspeeks and all
other marks viii disappear * if by.
magic. After the washing has been
thorough, dry and polish with dry
paper. Rag paper is the most useful
for this purpose, as wood OF straw;
papers will leave q lint on the glass.
Cloth will do the same thing.
One, of the cheapest and best agents,
for tho destruction of bugs moths, and
other vermin is benzine. 1t may be,
poured freely On mattresses, uphol-'
stored furniture, and carpets without
fear Of injury,and the odor soon evapo-
rates, but the vermin is efectually de-
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